Monday, June 09, 2008

A great weekend

This was really a pretty good weekend for the Twins.

*Delmon Young hit his first home run. He's now only two behind Alexi Casilla, who is slightly larger than my right nut (notice how people always compare things to their left nut? Well my right nut is bigger, so I'm going with that one).
*Michael Cuddyer hit his third homer. Jason Kubel hit his 7th.
*Carlos Gomez made a really awesome, full-throttle diving catch even with the team down 12-1.
*The aforementioned Casilla hit another homer, and moved closer to his first AL batting title. (This guy was hitting .210 in Triple-A when they called him up, and now he's hitting .342/.393/.519.
In the majors.
What. The. Hell.
*Speaking of batting titles, Matt Macri upped his averaged to .429.
*Mike Redmond got some hits, and now he's hitting .310.
*Craig Breslow, Jesse Crain, Matt Guerrier and Dennys Reyes all quietly continued to throw well. Juan Rincon continued to be awful, and practically begged for his release when questioned by reporters.
I get why they don't want to get rid of Rincon. He's making $2.4 million, and they don't want to just eat it.
But really, what sense does that make? You have to pay him either way, and aren't you getting more for your money by replacing him (and hence improving the team) then stubbornly throwing him out there just because you already paid for it?

So, anyway, back to all the positives from this weekend.
Uh...Delmon Young homered.
Yep, it was a pretty good weekend.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's a nice spin on things.

Anonymous said...

John Kruk doesn't compare right or left. Neither does Mike Lowell.